A new TEO for the new year! My new year's resolution was to start putting more effort and time back into these pages, and I think this week's page came out really well as a result of that effort. (About four hours of solid coloring should add up to something, anyways.)
My Christmas vacation was interesting, if not pulse-poundingly exciting. We went up into the Virginia mountains to stay at a ski resort, in the hopes that we could carve up some hills in a manner that we haven't done since we moved away from Colorado over six years ago. Unfortunately, there was no snow. Rain, yes, but no snow. A lot of our time was spent sitting in the "cabin" (actually a rather large house perched precariously on a hill with hundreds of others exactly like it) reading and watching TV. This was great for my parents (Dad finished a whole four-hundred-page book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil– and he usually never gets the time to read anything besides the paper, so he's very proud of himself), but bad for us kids, since Jilly missed her friends and I missed the Internet (dial-up only, and it didn't work with my laptop– hence the hasty post I made in the cafe on Christmas Eve). We did do some interesting stuff– tubing, horseback riding, frolicking in a ridiculously large indoor water park on Christmas day– but being at a ski resort with no skiing felt kind of, well, futile. (They did have a few slopes open, actually, with man-made snow on them. But their brownish-yellow hue, rock-hard iciness, and occasional patches of grass and rocks turned us off.) So we left on Wednesday instead of Friday, and we've been chilling at home ever since. Of course, now it's raining here. Still not a flake of snow in sight. Denver has all the luck, doesn't it? Stupid global warming.
As for the gifts I got… besides the astoundingly tacky "Santa Low Rider" desk piece (press a button and it lights up, bounces up and down, and plays a sample War's "Low Rider") that I'm not sure what to do with… I got a very fancy Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser microphone, complete with a spidery-looking shock mount and a desktop stand. The mic has a USB cable that runs straight into my laptop, allowing for quick, easy high-quality recording. Expect a lot of audio stuff from me in the future. I also got a record turntable that can transfer vinyl 33â…“s and 45s into MP3s– add in the old turntable we have in the basement, and I now actually have two turntables and a microphone. (Which makes my house where it's at.)
Anyways, now that the new year is upon us, it's probably a good time for you guys to start makin' stuff for the big TEO Two Years And (almost) One Hundred Pages Super Xtreme Guest Comic Partyganzabration And Potluck Lunch that's comin' up this February 16th (or thereabouts). Your assignment: draw a guest comic for TEO (comics are optimal, but I'll also accept pictures, prose, music, videos, YTMNDs, or whatever other form of creative expression you want to use) and e-mail it to me. Not only will I post it on this very site– this very site!– but I'll also be your secret friend forever and ever. You've got a month and a half, so get all up on it, loyal fanbase!
…Please?
In conclusion, in case you've never heard Dio's "Holy Diver", here it is.
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